Good morning Grandpa Chan
Read about Grandpa Chan. Each line has a mistake - an error, a missing word or an extra word. Try to correct the errors. Do you know anyone like Grandpa Chan?
1. You can seeing Grandpa Chan in Aberdeen.
2. He gets up at early and takes his bird down to the
3. waterfront at where he chats to his many old
4. friends. He enjoys a game of chess. It don't
5. matter he is playing or watching others - he still
6. likes working out all the moves. He born in
7. Aberdeen in 1933. He has had a hardly life.
8. During the Japanese Occupation he rarely to had
9. enough to eat. He did not get much of schooling,
10. but soon he could becoming a fisherman.
11. He could tell a lot of scary stories about
12. sea and its sudden moods. A few of his friend
13. had watery graves, and him and his boat nearly
14. went on the bottom in one typhoon. Grandpa
15. Chan was a stricter but good father and made
16. ensure that his four children had a good education
17. and better opportunities that he had. He shakes
18. off his head with amazement when he thinks
19. of all the changes that have been taken place
20. during his life's time. When he was young, the South
21. China Sea seemed full of fishes, but now he hears
22. it's getting harder and harder to getting a decent
23. catch. Still, life is much more better. His children
24. have comfortable homes, take holidays oversea and
25. rush around making for money. Even he has a mobile
26. phone so Grandma can tell him when to come to
27. home. Grandpa's greatest joy is his grandson - in the
28. fact, he hopes he had more than one. The boy
29. is so clever and tries to teach him about computer.
30. Since his retirement, Grandpa has become interesting
31. in horse racing. When he was younger, he use to say
32. it was bad. He had known quite a few men whom
33. couldn't support their living because of their
34. gambling losses, but nowadays he allows him
35. a small bet occasionally just for the funs of it.
36. He also enjoys his foods and looks forward to
37. Sunday dim sum. Grandpa is become a bit
38. slower; he sleeps more, and he is a bit hard for
39. hearing, but for the most part he is health.
40. That's unlucky because he hates having to
41. see the doctor. Look, he's getting up now. Where
42. he going - oh, to McDonald's for eating breakfast.
43. That's something his grandson has teached him.
Answers:
1. can see - can + bare infinitive
2. delete at - early is an adverb
3. delete at - where is an adverb
4. doesn't - singular agreement
5. matter if/whether - indirect question
6. He was born - passive
7. hard - adjective
8. delete to - no sense
9. delete of - much + noun
10. became
11. about the sea - definite
12. friends - a few of + plural
13. he and his boat - subject
14. to the bottom - phrase = sink
15. strict - no comparison
16. sure - adjective
17. change that to than - comparison
18. delete off
19. delete been - take place cannot be passive
20. lifetime - one word
21. fish - uncountable
22. to get - infinitive
23. delete more - double comparative
24. overseas - correct spelling
25. delete for - to make money
26. delete the second to - not used with home
27. delete the - in fact
28. change hopes to wishes [or he hopes he will have]
29. computers [or the computer]
30. interested - common confusion
31. used - past tense
32. who - subject
33. change living to families - earn a living, support people
34. himself - reflexive
35. fun - uncountable
36. food - uncountable
37. is becoming [or has become]
38. hard of - idiom, hard of hearing, a bit deaf
39. healthy - adjective
40. lucky - sense
41. Where's/is - verb needed
42. delete eating - verb not necessary
43. taught - correct past participle of teach